One of the demos in my Mix 11 talk " An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love " was showing how IIS Express and Visual Studio SP1 (as well as WebMatrix) can make working with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) a heck of a lot easier. If you've use…
Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the vid…
It's Day 1 of the Mix 11 conference here in Las Vegas. I work for the Web Platform and Tools (that's ASP.NET, IIS, IIS Media, etc) group and I did the Web Platform demos for Scott Guthrie's part of the keynote. A lot of people in Dev and QA…
Have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan ? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan – Upgrade to 1.1, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer . The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site …
Lots of cool stuff was released yesterday that I mentioned in the post ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released – The Microsoft January Web Release in Context . The Web Platform & Tools Content Team has been working hard on …
At PDC10 last November I did a talk on the " Unnamed Package of Web Love " , showing ASP.NET MVC3 and Razor Syntax, the NuGet Package Manager, as well as SQL Compact Edition and a little " Entity Framework Magic Unicorn ." I make up…
In this blog post, I will cover two interesting tools that, when combined, can bring great value and speed at the beginning of any new software project that has to meet standards that are to be re-used for every project. The tools? Templify and NuGet.
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I got an interesting question recently from a gentleman who has an existing ASP.NET WebForms 2.0 application that works just fine. He's upgraded it to ASP.NET 4 and it still works great, but now he wants to add some ASP.NET MVC pages to it. He does…
Yeah.. Its a cheesy title but what can I say. You can file this under “why nupack is not just for open source”. We are using Nupack to distributed dependencies libraries and for the UI Framework where I work (Dell). My team is responsib…
Probably you have seen the buzz around NuPack, a package manager for .NET with thight integration in Visual Studio 2010. NuPack is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process o…